[–] 1 point 5 hours ago

i have to imagine it's just the result of some geneva convention thing, because if nothing else the shields obviously let through some light and thus you could blind them with a big laser (like a pickup truck blasting their highbeams directly into your rear view mirror).

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    fwiw i've been using both caffeine and melatonin for a while and it has completely fixed my sleep issues just like how glasses fix vision problems, so it's definitely possible to benefit enormously from those drugs.

    I prefer ""natural"" treatments as well, but given how ludicrously effective these drugs have been for me i'd recommend OP start by just tweaking how they take them.
    Either halve the caffeine dose or set an alarm to take it several hours earlier, and stop spreading out the melatonin. It takes like 30 minutes for melatonin to kick in so spreading it out like that kinda just means you'll fall asleep 2 hours later than you could be.

    Then if that doesn't help then maybe the caffeine and melatonin just aren't suitable, and it's time to explore other options.

    Also, and this applies to everyone: If you have trouble breathing through your nose, try saline spray.
    It can be had as literally pure salt water and for me it's just as effective as fancy prescription decongestant spray, and using it is probably also a big part of why i can actually sleep normally now.
    There's a recent british study with 14'000 participants that showed it (well, it might have been full on washing your nose with salt water, but same difference i think?) can straight up decrease antibiotic usage, shit's wild.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    ngl anarchy is so blitheringly obvious to me that i struggle to even start arguing for it, it's like having to argue for eating food.
    I- y- wh- fucking i don't know! food is good! the fuck

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    i kinda feel like it mostly depends on where you are, tbh.
    Nordics? Gradual reform, and we could probably pull it off pretty quickly without anyone really noticing much of a difference tbh.
    America? Yeah good luck doing it gradually there before the heat death of the universe.

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